Strat-O-Seal Manufacturing Co. v. Scott

An Illinois business corporation and an individual citizen of the State filed a petition in the circuit court of Sangamon County, under the provisions of “An Act in relation to suits to restrain and enjoin the disbursement of. public moneys by officers of the state.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 102, par. 11 et seq.) The act provides that such a suit, if prosecuted by an ordinary citizen and taxpayer instead of the Attorney General, must be commenced by a petition for leave to file it, and that if the court is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for filing the suit the petition may be…